Aunt; was Re: "Authentic pronunciation" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
> I remember a teacher in the third grade in Waltz, MI, 25 miles S of
> Detroit, telling us the hog, log, fog, and dog should all be
> pronounced with the vowel of "cot." Â  We knew better.
>

Though, clearly, I don't agree with your every post, Herb, in this
case I am definitely backing your play! The summer that I was at UMI,
I was chatting with a local about East Texas, where, AFAIK, there are
no squirrels. I noted that, since I'd had only nursery-book
picturizations to go by, I was really surprised to see how small
squirrels really were. I'd been under the impression that squirrels
were as big as [gesture] that.

The Michigander exclaimed, "Why, that would be as big as a daahg!"

My guess, that animal must have been pretty near to a daowg in size. ;-)

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
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